Domenic Mico
Gallery 1
19 March - 5 April 2020
Opening 6pm Thursday 19 March
Exhibition runs until 5 pm Sunday 5 April.
image: Domenic Mico, Untitled, 2019, acrylic on canvas, detail.
Photo: courtesy of the artist
Sally O’Neill
Gallery 2
19 March - 5 April 2020
Opening 6pm Thursday 19 March
Exhibition runs until 5 pm Sunday 5 April.
There’s Nothing to See Here is a series of self-portraits, including acrylic paintings on canvas and one stop motion animation video.
O’Neill gives the mundane new emphasis, compelling my audience to consider the value of the ordinary in their own lives. Her personal narrative therefore, is a shared experience; a contemporary story.
image: Sally O’Neill, what makes the world go around, acrylic on canvas.
Photo: courtesy of the artist
Madeline Young
Gallery 3
19 March - 5 April 2020
Opening 6pm Thursday 19 March
Exhibition runs until 5 pm Sunday 5 April.
This body of work is an ode to the bush and the landscape that surrounds my home in Orange, NSW and is a reflection of my obsession with eucalyptus trees. Their uniqueness and resilience, to me, is beautiful and something to be celebrated. After the recent bushfires in our area I’ve taken many field trips into the landscape just to admire the form and colours of the blackened trees. I drive through this landscape every day. The moments of quiet when you manage to escape the white noise of civilisation are precious to me.
image: Madeline Young, After The Fire, 2019, oil on canvas, 62x62cm.
Photo: courtesy of the artist
Paul Summerfield
Gallery 1
9 April - 26 April 2020
Opening 6pm Thursday 9 April
Exhibition runs until 5 pm Sunday 26 April.
To be opened by Alex Marsden, National Director of Australian Museums and Galleries Association.
Futurescape is a new body from Canberra artist Paul Summerfield.
For 15 years Paul has been creating elaborate digital artworks that challenge, inspire and amaze his audiences. The worlds he creates project the imagination, hopes and fears of his subjects into the landscapes they inhabit, creating technologically modern environments entangled with primitive projections of their natural worlds. This combination of technology and nature creates a unique hopeful reality with moments of serene beauty as well as implausible dystopian and utopian realities.
Paul’s work brings together elements of steampunk, surrealism and romanticism in a pop style that is original and totally identifiable. It challenges us to think outside of our historical industrial aesthetic to a future in which the uninhibited human imagination can realise its ultimate expression.
image: Paul Summerfield, Futurescape details, 2019/20, digital print on paper.
Photo: courtesy of the artist
Gallery 2
9 April - 26 April 2020
Opening 6pm Thursday 9 April
Exhibition runs until 5 pm Sunday 26 April.
Cherylynn Holmes is investigating, experimenting and further developing her main themes including modern life, architecture, astronomy, science and popular culture.
image: Cherylynn Holmes, Above and Below 3, 2019, Acrylic Paint, texture paste's on canvas 25cm x25cm
Photo: courtesy of the artist
Brenton Mcgeachie
Gallery 3
9 April - 26 April 2020
Opening 6pm Thursday 9 April
Exhibition runs until 5 pm Sunday 26 April.
Mcgeachie’s work has explores the built/personal landscape of Canberra and other environments, photographed typically with a blend of natural and artificial light. It explore thes ‘ignored’ spaces of cities and suburbia.
image: Brenton Mcgeachie, Untitled, 2012, pigment, print, A2.
Photo: courtesy of the artist
Michele England, Dash Kossmann, Fran Meatheringham
Gallery 1a
30 April - 17 May 2020
Opening 6pm Thursday 30 April
Exhibition runs until 5 pm Sunday 17 May.
‘Ars longa, Vita brevis’ – art is long, life is short. In response to the juxtaposition of this aphorism and the concept of ephemera, each artist is presenting expressive works through the lens of contemporary life. These artworks seek to extend in time and space the transient quality of ephemera via its material representation in art.
The Ephemera exhibition includes works by Michele England, Dash Kossmann and Fran Meatheringham, which investigate the concept of the ephemeral and the impermanence of things.
image: Michele England, Watch and Act, 2019, oil on board.
Photo: courtesy of the artist
Ellen Shields
Gallery 1b
30 April - 17 May 2020
Opening 6pm Thursday 30 April
Exhibition runs until 5 pm Sunday 17 May.
I find the relative magnitude and complexity of the universe comforting, to be within something that is so much more significant than my own reality. My current artwork explores the abstracted concept of being placed out in the universe, where the scale of our own existence is brought into perspective.
Image: Ellen Shields, Eagle Nebula, 2017, acrylic on canvas, 1100 x 850 cm.
Photo: courtesy of the artist
Melissa Beowulf
Gallery 2
30 April - 17 May 2020
Opening 6pm Thursday 30 April
Exhibition runs until 5 pm Sunday 17 May.
Melissa Beowulf will recreate her prison room, in an enclosed box, within the gallery, to convey the sense of isolation experienced by detainees. Using objects she made during the fourteen months in Remand at the Alexander McConachie Centre, in Symonston, before being acquitted.
image: Melissa Beowulf, cottage room, 2018.
Photo: courtesy of the artist
Karynne Ledger
Gallery 3
30 April - 17 May 2020
Opening 6pm Thursday 30 April
Exhibition runs until 5 pm Sunday 17 May.
This exhibition looks at the relationship between humans and birds, Extinction rates for native animals the world over, including birds are increasing, mainly due to human intervention on some level. Here both colonies meet each other and try to force their terms. Australia has an interesting juxtaposition with birds and whilst many have moved on, some have remained resolute and retained something of their space in our urban areas.
Image: Karynne Ledger, The masked owl devines a fine plate, 2019, Inks and liquid acrylic, 300 GSM Arches watercolour paper.
Photo: courtesy of the artist
Tom Buckland, Adina West, Patrick Larmour, Ellen Sleeman-Taylor, Belle Palmer, Rowan McGinness, Esther Carlin, Ruby Rossiter, and Sky Jamieson
Gallery 1
21 May - 7 June 2020
Opening 6pm Thursday 21 May
Exhibition runs until 5 pm Sunday 7 June.
To have a double standard is to apply different sets of principles to a situation, principles that in practice are contradictory to one another, benefiting oneself or a group of people. The application of a double standard is used in a multitude of ways, and can be seen as a mechanism that disempowers people by the desire to be right. Time and time again we experience double standards within society, which are present in politics, gender, social conditioning, relationships, ethics, morality and art.
Double Standard is the examination of how we affect and are affected by the principles in our lives. This exhibition challenges our Artists to present their work in a different contexts of a double standard, and juxtapose their ideas, media and use of space.
Tom Buckland, Adina West, Patrick Larmour, Ellen Sleeman-Taylor, Belle Palmer, Rowan McGinness, Esther Carlin, Ruby Rossiter, Sky Jamieson are all graduates of the School of Art and Design who work in a diverse range of media. Although each of their practice varies, each artist is linked by the way they challenge the initial functions of static art in a contemporary context.
Image: Skye Jamieson, Hard Running, cement and glue, dimensions variable (2020)
Photo: courtesy of the artist
Amy Powell
(EASS award)
Gallery 2
21 May - 7 June 2020
Opening 6pm Thursday 21 May
Exhibition runs until 5 pm Sunday 7 June.
Showing the work from an awarded graduate of the ANU, as part of the ANU Emerging Artists Support Scheme. Powell was selected for this exhibition by the Chair of M16 artspace, Vasiliki Nihas.
Amy Powell, Oasis (detail), 2019, acrylic paint, 91.4 x 76 x 1.3 cm. Photographer- Brenton McGeachie.
Students from the Indigenous youth artist development program
Gallery 3
21 May - 7 June 2020
Opening 6pm Thursday 21 May
Exhibition runs until 5 pm Sunday 7 June.
Gatherings is a project that is investing in long-term relationship building with young Indigenous artists and the studio artists of M16. This is the final exhibition showing tartworks developed during the project.
Marsden Arts Group
Gallery 1
11 June - 28 June 2020
Opening 6pm Thursday 11 June
Exhibition runs until 5 pm Sunday 28 June.
The Marsden Arts Group has chosen the colour Pantone 311 and responds to the colour in a different way.
Gallery 2
11 June - 28 June 2020
Opening 6pm Thursday 11 June
Exhibition runs until 5 pm Sunday 28 June.
Thematic works, influenced by modern fashion/culture and 19th century romanticism.
image: Gerald Jones, them are you, 2019, oil on canvas, 76 x 76 cm.
Photo: courtesy of the artist.
Phil Page
Gallery 3
11 June - 28 June 2020
Opening 6pm Thursday 11 June
Exhibition runs until 5 pm Sunday 28 June.
Phil Page continues his explorations into Australia’s urban environments, focussing this occasion on Melbourne and the way cities have developed as urban palimpsests.
image: Phil Page, Rijksmuseums, 2018, acrylic, metal leaf on board, 51 x 41 cm.
Photo Credit: Dorian Photographs.
Georgina Campbell
Gallery 2
2 July - 19 July 2020
Opening 6pm Thursday 2 July
Exhibition runs until 5 pm Sunday 19 July.
Photographic works based on the Strange Loop concept of working ones way through a seemingly hierarchical structure giving the impression of moving forward only to end up back where you started thus forming a Strange Loop. These works are about the strange landscape of Iceland, being stuck, but with a great sense of momentum occurring at the same time.
Part biographical, the works represent Campbell’s own Strange Loop of returning to Iceland in the exact opposite order from arriving there 3 years previously, and the events that occurred in between including losing all her digital data and all the images the artist had spent 3 months making thus being back at the start of a very strange loop.
image: Georgina Campbell, Mountain with Lights, 2016, inkjet, 61 x91cm.
Photo: courtesy of the artist.
Al Munro
Gallery 2
2 July - 19 July 2020
Opening 6pm Thursday 2 July
Exhibition runs until 5 pm Sunday 19 July.
Drawing on her interest in the intersections of textile patterning and mathematics, Al Munro has created new work that focuses on the systems and logic of embroidered textiles and how these might relate to painted abstraction.
image: Al Munro, Black and white work 4, 2019, acrylic on canvas, detail.
Photo: courtesy of the artist.
M16 Studio artists
Gallery 1
23 July - 9 August 2020
Opening 6pm Thursday 23 July
Exhibition runs until 5 pm Sunday 9 August.
M16’s studio artists present their annual group exhibition. Representing a broad cross-section of Canberra’s artistic practitioners, the exhibition highlights the diversity of professional art practice at M16 through
paintings, prints, drawings, jewellery and objects produced by both established and emerging artists.
image: Open Day 2019
Studio artists
Gallery 2
23 July - 9 August 2020
Opening 6pm Thursday 23 July
Exhibition runs until 5 pm Sunday 9 August.
Canberra Art Workshop is a thriving studio centre for the arts at M16 Artspace. They welcome all artists, from complete beginners to practicing professionals. This exhibition presents a range of work including life drawing, pastel, watercolour, portraiture, print making and others – all made in Canberra Art Workshop’s studio.
image: CAW 2018
Studio artists
Gallery 3
23 July - 9 August 2020
Opening 6pm Thursday 23 July
Exhibition runs until 5 pm Sunday 9 August.
This exhibition showcases works by Hands-On Studio members. The works explore story-telling and were all produced from Hands-On classes.
Hands-On Studio is an arts organisation at M16 Artspace which seeks to provide people with all abilities the access to an art education. One of the studio’s objectives is to provide these artists with as many opportunities as possible to exhibit in mainstream gallery spaces.
image: Hands On Studio, Gallery 3, 2019
Canberra Art Workshop artists
Gallery 1
13 August - 30 August 2020
Opening 6pm Thursday 13 August
Exhibition runs until 5 pm Sunday 30 August.
CAW latest group exhibition will be centered around themes of Environmental Health and Human Health. The exhibition seeks to become a platform for change.
image: L Hanna, Blue Pools , 2017,Acrylic, 30 x 42 cm.
Photo: courtesy of the artist.
Justine McLaren
Gallery 2
13 August - 30 August 2020
Opening 6pm Thursday 13 August
Exhibition runs until 5 pm Sunday 30 August.
Following the example of the still life painting, Justine McLaren’s exhibition explores the vessel as a receptacle that sustains or denies the life within it. Transparent hand blown glass vessels will support tiny plant environments that respond to the presence or absence of nourishment.
image: Justine McLaren, Receptacle 2, 2019, glass, coated copper wire, ash, japonica, h45cm x w14cm x d14cm.
Photo: courtesy of the artist.
Jess Higgins
Gallery 3
13 August - 30 August 2020
Opening 6pm Thursday 13 August
Exhibition runs until 5 pm Sunday 30 August.
Jess Higgins’ new work is a visual response to the Black Elephant concept, where the loss of human life through alleged tourture is denied. It focusses on the current conflict in the Middle East where the loss of human life at the hands of unethical practices of war is severely underrepresented, concealed or entirely ignored.
image: Jess Higgins, The Known Knowns #1, 2018, soft pastels on wenzhou paper, (detail) 245cm x 90cm.
Photo: Brenton Mcgeachie
Gallery 1
3 September - 20 September 2020
Opening 6pm Thursday 3 September
Exhibition runs until 5 pm Sunday 20 September.
Showcasing the journey of art teacher and art student and how they have re-connected through their art practices after 34 years. Two artists with a shared vision of light, shadow & atmospheric experiences, creating awareness of the beauty and fragility of our environment.
image: Caroline Deeble, Red Leaves Floating, 2019, 64 x 64 cm Watercolour on Gallery wrapped Canvas.
Photo courtesy of the artist.
Barbara Wheeler
Gallery 2
3 September - 20 September 2020
Opening 6pm Thursday 3 September
Exhibition runs until 5 pm Sunday 20 September.
As an immersive installation, visitors to Sensory Cloth – Earth, Water, Light will be able to interact with the work, breaking the often-unconscious barrier between art and its audience. Through this interaction, Wheeler questions the visitor in relation to environmental threats caused by global fast fashion.
image: Barbara Wheeler, Alder shibori top hands, 2019.
Photo: courtesy of the artist.
Curator: Leonie Andrews
Gallery 3
3 September - 20 September 2020
Opening 6pm Thursday 3 September
Exhibition runs until 5 pm Sunday 20 September.
A network of artists have contributed a small square of cloth with one or two sets of ‘opening stitches’ on it for the next artist to continue on with. Curator, Leonie Andrews brings the stitched works into a larger textile piece.
image: Leonie Andrews, stitch with opening stitches by Liz Lawrie, Coloured Vectors, 2019, 21.5 cm x 18.5 cm, Photo: courtesy of the artist.
Photo courtesy of the artist.
Carmel McCrow
Gallery 1a
24 September - 11 October 2020
Opening 6pm Thursday 24 September
Exhibition runs until 5 pm Sunday 11 October.
“From the clouds above us, to a single raindrop or a mighty ocean, water shapes the world we know. All living things are made predominently from water. This has been the inspiration for my new body of work, a gentle transition from the fluidity and colour of clouds, to the abundant detail, colour and dancing forms of water.”
image: Carmel McCrow, SEABORN LIGHT, 2019, oil on canvas.
Photo: courtesy of the artist.
Chris Holly
Gallery 1b
24 September - 11 October 2020
Opening 6pm Thursday 24 September
Exhibition runs until 5 pm Sunday 11 October.
“What do we reveal when we scan nature around us? ” This question drives Chris Holly’ new body of work documenting elements of Australian flora isolated from its natural context.
image: Chris Holly, Scan 03, 2019, type C print, detail
Photo: courtesy of the artist.
Gallery 3
24 September - 11 October 2020
Opening 6pm Thursday 24 September
Exhibition runs until 5 pm Sunday 11 October.
An exploration of line and movement as Cindy captures the life of local native flora found in bush lands.
image: Cindy Curby, Shoalhaven, 2019, watercolour and ink on paper. 25cm x 30cm.
Photo courtesy of the artist.
Manuel Pfeiffer and Eva van Gorsel
Gallery 1
15 October - 1 November 2020
Opening 6pm Thursday 15 October
Exhibition runs until 5 pm Sunday 1 November.
After traveling from the Kimberleys, south to Perth and back to Canberra via the Nullarbor plain, artists Manuel Pfeiffer and Eva van Gorsel set out to capture the many facets of this magnificent continent.
Image: Manuel Pfeiffer and Eva van Gorsel, Alpine Forest, 2019, acrylic on canvas and Digital Prints.
Photo: courtesy of the artist.
David Hempenstall
Gallery 2
15 October - 1 November 2020
Opening 6pm Thursday 15 October
Exhibition runs until 5 pm Sunday 1 November.
The works document a journey from the viewpoint of both the seen and unseen. From bold solid shapes scenic to microscopic cell structures that lie within both human and landscape forms.
Are we engaged to the environment through a visual pleasure? or upon realisation of our biological similarities? or is there something more to this experience that cannot be quantified?
image:David Hempenstall, Etty Bay, Far North Queensland. 2014, Silver gelatine (toned). 125mm x 190mm.
Photo: courtesy of the artist.
Jodi Woodward
Gallery 3
15 October - 1 November 2020
Opening 6pm Thursday 15 October
Exhibition runs until 5 pm Sunday 1 November.
A large-scale installation made of hundreds of blackened wooden tiles, exploring expanded and contemporary drawing practices. The installation considers the relationship between trauma and chronic illness, questioning if tolerated pain, discomfort and suffering can be embedded in an artwork.
image: Jodi Woodward, Make It Darker, 2018, tile surface charcoal powder, oil stick, paint, detail.
Photo: courtesy of the artist.
John Wiseman.
Gallery 1
5 November - 22 November 2020
Opening 6pm Thursday 5 November
Exhibition runs until 5 pm Sunday 22 November.
A collection of photographs exploring the world and wildlife around us.
image: John Wiseman, The Royal Bird of Costa Rica, digital print.
Photo: courtesy of the artist
Murray Kirkland
Gallery 2
5 November - 22 November 2020
Opening 6pm Thursday 5 November
Exhibition runs until 5 pm Sunday 22 November.
This body of work explores the experience of travelling through Central Australia. Through painting and installation Kirkland seeks to convey a sense of overwhelming space and time experience through travel.
image: Murray Kirkland, Ammonite 1, 2019.
Photo: courtesy of the artist.
Clare Martin
Gallery 3
5 November - 22 November 2020
Opening 6pm Thursday 5 November
Exhibition runs until 5 pm Sunday 22 November.
This series explores the paradox of mapping ‘nowhere’ via visual metaphors and erasures. Martin is pairing concepts from the domains of ‘maps’ and ‘nowhere’. The series progresses from well-defined representation towards minimalist abstraction.
image: Clare Martin, postcard from the sky - cluster, 2018, mixed media, detail.
Photo: courtesy of the artist.
Gallery 1
26 November - 11 December 2020
Opening 6pm Thursday 26 November
Exhibition runs until 5 pm Sunday 11 December.
The M16 Drawing Prize is an annual exhibition, focussing on works on paper (or other surfaces) using either traditional or not-traditional drawing material. The prize and associated exhibition seeks to examine, challenge and open up a dialogue ‘what is drawing’? The Prize attracts interstate and international entries. In 2020 it will be in it’s 15th year, running since 2006. All works must be produced in the year prior to the exhibition.
image: Nicci Haynes mad walk 2019 animation still 2 mins 16 secs, Overall Drawing Prize winner and winner of the Philip Leeson Architects’ Prize
Kristina Neumann and Antoinette Karsten
Gallery 3
26 November - 13 December 2020
Opening 6pm Thursday 26 November
Exhibition runs until 5 pm Sunday 13 December.
Showing the outcome of two M16 Studio residencies awarded to two graduates from the ANU, as part of the ANU Emerging Artists Support Scheme. The emerging studio at M16 is supported by Narrabundah Family Medical Practice.
image: Courtesy of M16